Gone With A Wind- review

             For my movie review I picked, in my opinion, the most sentimental portrait of the Civil War- "Gone With The Wind", directed by Victor Fleming and produced by David O. Selznick.
             Victor Fleming was born on February 23, 1883 in Pasadena, CA. He'd been a racecar driver and in later years was a well-known motorcyclist and airplane pilot. He got into the film industry by accident. First he was an assistant cameraman for director Allan Dwan and by 1915 became a director of photography. He worked under D. W. Griffith's supervision as for Dwen on several films with Douglas Fairbanks. He made his feature debut as a co-director on Fairbanks' movie "When the clouds roll by"(1920). His first solo project was " The Mollycoddle"(1921). He worked at Paramount and went to MGM in 1932. Fleming was a really skilled at film for young audiences, for example "Treasure Island"(1934), "Captains Courageous"(1937) or "The Wizard of Oz". He was also a favorite director of actor Clark Gable, and having guided him in "Red Dust"(1932) and "Test Pilot"(1938) was brought in to take over the directory of "Gone With The Wind"(1939), which earned Victor a Best Director Oscar. He was one of MGM's most reliable directors, and his most notable films of the 40's were "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", "Tortilla Flat", "A guy named Joe", "Adventure", and his final film "Joan of Arc". Although he directed some of Hollywood's most potent weepers, he was known so much as Mr. Macho J. Victor died on January 6, 1949 in Cottonwood, AZ.
             "GWTW" considers the dramatic changes, which take place in the American South between the period of 1861 and 1873. It opens in April of 1861, at the palatial southern estate of Tara, where Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) finds out that her belo...

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